Wacker Chemie AG has officially started up a new reactor for vinyl acetate-ethylene co-polymer (VAE) dispersions at its Calvert City site in Kentucky, USA. By expanding its capacities, WACKER is meeting global demand for its dispersions and ...
Tags: Wacker, dispersible polymer powders, VAE
Orion Engineered Carbons S.A. and Evonik Industries AG have announced agreements on transactions where Orion will acquire Evonik’s 52 percent percent stake as well as Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH’s ...
Tags: QECC, Carbon Black
BASF and China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (SINOPEC) inaugurated their world-scale isononanol (INA) plant in Maoming Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone, Maoming, China. The plant will be run by BASF MPCC Company Limited (BMC), which ...
Tags: BASF, SINOPEC, phthalate plasticizers
Xicato®, a leading manufacturer of intelligent light sources, published today on its website TM-30-15 Color Rendering results for its entire product range of XTM and XIM modules. TM-30-15 is a new method for quantifying color ...
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The Global Lighting Association (GLA) cautions against the establishment of regulatory or other minimum performance requirements for a colour rendering index (Ra) of greater than 80 for indoor lighting applications. For Europe, the GLA ...
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International Paper (IP) will exit from Chinese coated board joint venture (JV) by selling its 55% stake to JV partner Shandong Sun Holding for $23m. The IP-Sun JV operates one manufacturing facility with four paper machines in Shandong ...
Kruger Packaging will invest C$250m ($188.6m) to convert the newsprint machine at its Trois-Rivières mill in Canada to produce lightweight linerboard. The project is being backed by a C$190m ($143.3m) funding from the ...
Tags: Kruger Packaging, linerboard, containerboard
IRL has announced a new, in-depth analysis of the top global markets for marine and protective coatings, covering market shares and prices in our analysis for the first time. Building on our successful Overview of the Global Marine and ...
US-based food processing company Cargill is investing $100m to double its soybean crush operation in Borg El Arab in order to meet the increasing demand in Egypt for soybean meal and oil. The company will construct 42,000 metric tonne ...
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AmeriPride Services, a textile rental services and supply company in North America has released its first ever corporate responsibility report. The report outlines key programs and initiatives AmeriPride is implementing as part of its ...
Clariant has announced a new development in controlling harmful nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions. Nitrous oxide emissions are harmful in two ways: they exacerbate the greenhouse effect and damage the ozone layer. At present, nitrous oxide is ...
Cargill has entered into an agreement with Altor Fund III and Bain Capital Europe III in order to acquire EWOS, a global leader in salmon nutrition for 1.35 Euro bn. The transaction, which is subject to regulatory approvals, is expected ...
BASF is investing in the expansion and flexibilization of its production facilities to manufacture chelating agents at its site in Ludwigshafen. By increasing the production capacity, the company is responding to the rapidly growing global ...
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BASF and PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad (PCG) will build a new world-scale production plant for highly reactive polyisobutene (HR-PIB) at the site of their existing joint venture, BASF PETRONAS Chemicals Sdn Bhd, in Kuantan, Malaysia. ...
Tags: chemicals, coating, BASF, PETRONAS Chemicals Group, paint and pigment
Sales will continue to grow as major companies roll out new products with long-lasting flavors in a highly competitive market Wallace Chung looked as if he had just stepped off a movie set. Dressed in an electric blue jacket with matching ...
Tags: Chewing Gum, chewing gum market